Van driver overturns £400 speeding fine after proving cameras filmed TWO different vehicles – and cops said it was a ‘common error’

Fuming motorist said 'a blind man on a galloping horse could see it was two different vans'

By TOM GILLESPIE

21st August 2016, 11:23 am

Updated: 21st August 2016, 11:34 am

A VAN driver who was wrongly slapped with a £400 fine after a speed camera clocked a different vehicle to his own, has had the decision overturned as cops admitted it was down to a "common error".

Paul Clamp was also threatened with a three-month driving ban for allegedly driving 77mph in a 50mph average speed zone.

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The camera snapped Mr Clamp's van as it the entered the road, and recorded he had driven at 77mph after it captured a different vehicle leaving the route

He requested paperwork to see details of his "offence" which showed his van was snapped entering the A14 stretch in Corby, Leicestershire, but a van with a similar number plate was pictured exiting the 50mph zone.

The automated system had thought that both vans were one and recorded a speed of 77mph.